Type | master project |
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Place | internal |
Supervisors | Jack van Wijk |
Student | - |
start/end date | - |
date | 11/2010 |
The visualization group in Eindhoven has a long tradition in hierarchical data visualization, which led to new methods like cushion treemaps, squarified treemaps, beamtrees, and botanically based visualizations. For a visual overview of many tree visualization methods, see http://vcg.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~hs162/treeposter/poster.html.
In this project another metaphor is explored: The River. A river has a hierarchical structure, where streams combine. The challenge is to develop automated methods to generate smooth, naturally looking patterns that resemble such a river. These can be used to visualize how larger parts (file systems, organizations, groups of people) are split up. Given this starting point, many issues are open:
In the end, a flexible approach has to be developed and implemented that allows users to generate visualizations of hierarchical data that are useful and visually intriguing.